Farmers Occupy Wall Street

After all the hype that Occupy Wall Street (OWS) was just a bunch for college educated losers, whose laziness has not produced riches, whining about good upright Americans who've earned their $100 billion nestegg, here comes a bit about American farmers joining the ranks of protesters.

One Hudson Valley farmer carries a sign that says: “Civilization was built on Agriculture, not a Trading Floor!”

My sentiments exactly. As one website states:

"Over the past three decades, the U.S. has adopted economic policies promoted by Wall Street investment banks and agribusiness monopolies that have led to massive concentration in food and agriculture. Today market concentration is so great that only four firms control 84% of beef packing and 66% of pork production, which has resulted in forcing more than 1.1 million independent livestock producers out of business since Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980."

Here's a little video from the Farmers Occupy Wall Street protest.